Laurie-Lynn McGlynn. Painter.

My studio practice explores the formal relationships of the pictorial surface while thematically referencing place, memory and deterioration. As a painter, I am concerned with the physicality of and tension between paint and its support. This is manifested through paint handling and the resultant textural surface left behind on both canvas or wire mesh. The latter refers to 3-dimensional sculptural hybrids that are installed as floor works.

My recent studies of the figure explore an interest in surrealism and the suggestion of a psychological space. My current paintings reference both staged and found photographs of children positioned in such a way to suggest unease. Their mouthless faces express a dislocation and withdrawal from the environment.

Future work will explore avenues to combine these two processes of work into one cohesive body of work – each informing the other. This hybridity will emphasize the connectivity of the wall works, which I view as ‘interior or psychological spaces’ with the floor works which I see as having the potential to express ‘the physical or bodily response’ to painting.